The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to appoint ministers within 60 days of swearing in following the signing of the constitution amendment bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Also, all governors that will be elected are to appoint ministers within 60 days of swearing in.
The new law mandated Tinubu or whoever that will be sworn in as President or governor to make their cabinet appointments within 60 days.
Elanza News reports that incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari did not appoint ministers until after six months of swearing in which marked the beginning of the woes of his administration.
It was gathered that investors who could not wait to know the direction of his policies left the country, which marked the beginning of hardship during his reign as Nigeria’s President.
This is just as the States Houses of Assembly and the States Judiciary have gotten autonomy following the signing of the 16 constitution alteration bills.
Buhari assented to 19 Bills in furtherance of Section 58 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 16 of the bills are Constitutional Alterations of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senate, Senator Babajide Omoworare said the highlights of the assented Constitutional Alteration Bills, amongst others, are:
“Ensuring financial independence of State Houses of Assembly and State Judiciary; regulating of the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the National and State Houses of Assembly and for related matters; ensuring that the President and Governors submit the names of persons nominated as Ministers or Commissioners within sixty days of taking the oath of office for confirmation by the Senate or State House of Assembly; and for related matters; enabling states generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid; and for related matters and excluding the period of intervening events in the computation of time for determining pre-election matters petitions.
Others are: regulating the first session and inauguration of members-elect of National and State Assemblies; changing prisons to correctional service and re-designate correctional service in the concurrent list; and moving item “railway” from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list.
According to Omoworare, the President also assented to three other bills to wit: The Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology Act, The Nigerian Institute of International Relations Act, and The Federal Medical Centres (Amendment) Acts.
